Not planned Make full view counts the default

[JJ1]

I propose making full view counts the default. Exact view counts are useful to see how fast the view counts on threads are increasing.

In the current system, view counts are exact until 999, after which they are abbreviated to "1K". Then they go up in 1000-view increments, so the next indication is "2K", not "1.1K".

This inaccuracy prevents you from knowing, for example, how many views your thread got since yesterday. If for instance you saw a view count of 1367 yesterday and 1439 today, you'd know your thread was seen 72 times. But with "1K", you don't get that.

With the abbreviated counts, you can't know whether your thread got 10 or 200 views since yesterday.

There seem to be ways for forum administrators to manually implement full view counts, but given that most forum administrators simply stick to the defaults, the default should be full view counts, like it is in phpBB and Burning Board.

At least pointing the cursor at the view count should reveal the full view count. This can be implemented through the HTML "title" attribute, for example:

<span title="1,367 views">1K</span>

Stack Overflow has implemented it this way.

 

[Chris D]

It’s already possible to change it to full counts using the phrases for short numbers, and possibly expose the full number as a title attribute while maintaining the short numbers (though I haven’t tried this), but our preference is short numbers by default so there are no plans to change this by default.